February Update on ActivityPub Development

[julian]

Okay, that was rather creepy. I hit post, and it immediately started raining 2cm sized hail.

[devnull@crag.social]

@news @fediversereport Thought you may be interested.

[alicihan@mastodon.social]

@[email protected] great job Julian! @julian

[crazycells]

@julian fantastic work! it is great to see that this is coming to life...

In case you would like to create a dev nodebb for fediverse testing/bug detection, please let us know...

[julian@mastodon.social]

@alicihan @[email protected] @julian Think you must’ve tagged me by mistake, but this is still cool! Great work fellow Julian!

[crazycells]

@alicihan-mastodon-social lol just checked "@julian" and it is directing to a user in mastodon social...

edit: and he replied and we all can see his reply...

[alicihan@mastodon.social]

@julian @[email protected] yeap My apologies for any confusion or inconvenience caused. I was just testing tagging in the @nodebb forum, and I made a mistake. Thank you for your understanding! But I'm glad you found it cool!

[julian]

I... don't quite know what's going on with the encoding on some of those messages... I guess we found the first bug

[crazycells]

@julian I used mastodon social reply box on the sidebar, fyi...

[crazycells]

@julian said in February Update on ActivityPub Development:

Your "handle" is your username followed by @community.nodebb.org.

how will it work for nodebb forums that are subfolder installation?

[julian]

@crazycells all very important questions that I do not have the answers to

[crazycells]

@julian if it is customizable, [email protected] would be simpler and cooler

[julian]

@crazycells I am not actually certain how it would work with a subfolder install. The way it currently works, a profile is found by querying the "webfinger" URL for that user. For example, for my account here, my user slug is julian and the domain portion is community.nodebb.org, and so when query that domain's webfinger endpoint it will show a link to my user profile.

That's how the handle is "proven" to exist. So if you wanted to support your site (which is on a subfolder), you'd have to add an nginx or apache rule to route the .well-known/webfinger requests to NodeBB.

I'm sure it's been done too actually, I am not sure if the Vivaldi or Opera guys were the ones.

[altcode@social.vivaldi.net]

@julian If you need ideas, you can look at what Mastodon, Pleroma, and GoToSocial do:

https://docs-p.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#federation
https://docs.pleroma.social/backend/configuration/how_to_serve_another_domain_for_webfinger/
https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/getting_started/#domain-name

My Mastodon instance, for example, has the local domain set to vivaldi.net, but the web domain is set to social.vivaldi.net, so my handle looks like @\[email protected] (or at least it does when viewed from remote servers that respect this configuration).

[crazycells]

hi @julian , I think the first post is broken... I see the last and first post being the same... and I cannot see vivaldi_blue's response on the forum...

[julian]

@crazycells yes, I noticed that this morning too, but can't take a look at it until later today

I think it's an easy fix.

[crazycells]

@julian no problem , I just wanted to bring it to your attention...

[julian]

@crazycells said in February Update on ActivityPub Development:

@julian no problem , I just wanted to bring it to your attention...

Okay, I think it is resolved now.

I wonder how quoted posts in NodeBB look in Mastodon

[devnull@crag.social]

@AltCode my main concern would be people potentially thinking users on that domain represent the brand. Suppose it depends on a case by case basis!

[alicihan@mastodon.social]

@devnull testing image upload...